Alt-pop songstress Julia Wolf tried to become a vampire. Plan B? Hypnotizing the internet with 'In My Room'

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Set us as preferred Suspended in a pool, holding onto an oxygen mask as her teeth chattered, Julia Wolf began to seriously consider the possibility of hypothermia.The 31-year-old musician was on set at the historic New York oysterman’s mansion known as the Captain Barnes for the music video of one of her latest singles, “Deep End,” a moody lament about Wolf’s seemingly endless capacity for yearning.

Her plan was to float around an underwater living room set up in her inner, surreal, suffocating fantasy world.However, the unheated pool in Staten Island instead felt bone-chilling in the early May temperatures, which hovered at a low 60 degrees Fahrenheit.The chorus, “In the deep end till I’m blue, you know I’ll drown if I have to,” was starting to feel a little too real, she said half-jokingly from her dry seat in the Los Angeles Times’ office.“I genuinely felt like I was gonna pass out,” Wolf said.

“You do it for the art, I guess.”Wolf has her arms folded over her “Spider-Man 3” T-shirt, her skin crisscrossed with a mosaic of tattoos including ones of Ghostface, the ghost dog Zero from “The Nightmare Before Christmas” and a skeleton in a casket.Below those is her favorite, which spans across her knuckles in the signature curled “Twilight” font: “Twilight is my drug.”Wolf owes some of her newfound success to “Twilight,” whose characters starred in video edits set to her music that launched her 2025 single “In My Room” to viral fame.

Fittingly, her sold-out “Deep End World Tour” kicked off Sept.10 in Forks, Wash., in the “Twilight Forever” festival, before she arrives in L.A.

to perform at the Fonda on Oct.25.

The grunge-infused hit song, which details her attempts to grab a lover’s attention to the point of slitting her throat, catapulted Wolf from a SoundCloud ...